• Personal details. Ukrainian, date of birth 1961, female.
• Qualifications. Candidate of Biological Science; member Ukrainian Botanical Society; secretary of Mycology & Phytopathology Branch of Society; holds Ukrainian driving licence.
• Current position. Senior Scientist, Department of Mycology, M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
• Expertise. Botany, mycology; specialist in mitosporic fungi; 60 publications, including joint-authorship of 2 monographs. Participant in Darwin Initiative project Fungi of Ukraine, and author of coelomycete entries in major checklist produced from that project. Research work has been presented at various national and international conferences, including meetings in Ukraine, Russia, Egypt and the UK. Considerable experience of data-entry for computerized biological recording. On Organizing Committee of Ukraine's first National Conference for Conservation of Biodiversity, Kaniv 1997.
• Languages. Ukrainian, Russian, English (fluent).
• Expeditions & fieldwork. Participant in Royal Geographical Society's first Ralph Brown Expedition (1998). Several months on a Soviet research ship, mainly in the Indian Ocean (Seychelles, Madagascar) but also visiting Indonesia, Numibia, Singapore, the Canary Islands and mangrove swamps of Guinea (1991); member of Second Polar Expedition (Komarov Botanical Institute, Leningrad, 1989), including work in northern Russia; extensive fieldwork within Ukraine, and other European fieldwork in Hungary and the Czech Republic.

Dr T.V. Andrianova,
M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany,
Tereshchenkivska Street 2,
Kiev, MSP-1, 252601,
Ukraine.
Fax: +380 44 224-6171
E-mail: tand@darwin.relc.com